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Franz Alexander



Franz Gabriel Alexander, MD, (1891–1964) was a Hungarian American psychoanalyst and physician. He is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Although he studied psychoanalysis under Sigmund Freud, he took his studies further and identified the role that chronic emotional stress plays in causing certain human diseases.

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Dr. Franz Alexander, 73, Dies; Was Pioneer in Psychosomatics; Analyst Led Chicago Institute for 25 Years—Authority on and Student of Freud

Franz Gabriel Alexander has been described on more than one occasion as the father of psychosomatic medicine. For almost 25 years, he was director of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he trained many of the leading students of emotional disturbances and psychosomatic diseases.

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What is Psychosomatic?

The term ‘psychosomatic’ means mind and body related. A psychosomatic disorder is a physical disease which is caused, or worsened, by mental factors. The term is also used when mental factors cause physical symptoms but where there is no physical disease.

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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Principles and Application

First published in 1946, Psychoanalytic Therapy stands as a classic presentation of "brief therapy".

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

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Bad Freudian Fathers

To a believer in the impossible profession, the family memoirs of famous psychoanalysts constitute a troubling but delicious genre. There is a certain satisfaction in reading about the unhappy marriages and not good enough parenting skills of bad Freudian fathers.

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Is Psychosomatic Medicine Real?

A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the History of the Mind and Body in medicine as well as the Physiology (Stress-Fear Axis, Epigenetics and Psychoimmunology).

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The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present

This work provides an account of the people, movements and events that have influenced the direction and character of psychiatry. The authors trace the various ways of dealing with mental illness that have emerged and developed, from prehistoric times to the modern day.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

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An Old Idea: What Ails the Body is Rooted in the Mind

The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.

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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Developments in Theory, Technique and Training

This book presents new viewpoints on the application of psychoanalytic principles to psychotherapy. Important changes have taken place as a result of the growing acceptance of psychoanalysis by the medical community.

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